Quotes About Shakespeare

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

We cannot really understand another human being without understanding his dharma story. And we cannot understand his dharma story without grasping the importance of his dharma mentors. The more I dug into Keats, the more I discovered that one cannot understand Keats without understanding Shakespeare. Mark apparently discovered the same thing. His second major play would be about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare snaking from the window to the door, to escape like we had.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.